People v. Ford

OPINION OF THE COURT

Harry W. Davis, J.

Defendants were convicted by a jury of the crime of scheme *250to defraud in the first degree (Penal Law, § 190.65). That section reads as follows: "1. A person is guilty of a scheme to defraud in the first degree when he (a) engages in a scheme constituting a systematic ongoing course of conduct with intent to defraud ten or more persons or to obtain property from ten or more persons by false or fraudulent pretences, representations or promises, and (b) so obtains property from one or more of such persons. 2. In any prosecution under this section, it shall…